Oracle Cloud (OCI) vs AWS

One of the most common issues faced by AWS customers is the AWS billing surprise, in which a customer receives a bill and finds they owe more than they expected—and can’t easily figure out why.

It happens because AWS pricing is complex, expensive at scale, and penalizes customers for hard to estimate usage elements such as data transfer and storage performance, which involves taking volume size, provisioned IOPs, and throughput into account for every volume.

AWS provides discounts for three-year commitments on products like compute, but ties those reserved instance commitments to particular compute shapes, operating systems, and regions. While discounting can help win business, the deployments are tying customers in to AWS-only services, and there’s no guarantee that pricing will be there in the future.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides better performance at a significantly lower cost than AWS. Our pricing structure is simple, predictable, and transparent, with none of surprises associated with AWS. Additionally, OCI charges the same flat rate for all regions worldwide, which means there are no hidden cost variances if your business expands globally.

Oracle also provides Universal Credits, which enable customers to use any Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or platform service in any region at a significant savings, with a predictable monthly spend commitment. But just because your spend is monthly, doesn’t mean your usage has to be: these credits don’t expire at the end of the month—they can be used any time during their 12-month contract window.